Updates Medicaid payments and Medicaid fee schedules for physical, occupational, and speech therapy services.

Virginia no longer has the authority to cover the former foster care youth from out of state under the State Plan.

This SPA is clarifying the provider types that are able to bill for Medical Nutrition Therapy.

Establishing supplemental payments for intern & resident slots at teaching hospitals, and modifying state psych DSH.

This SPA proposes to adjust reimbursement for nursing facilities in accordance with the 2017 Legislative Session.

This amendment re bases Nursing Facility and Nursing Facility for Mental Health payment rates for State fiscal year 2018. Payment rates will increase on average by 4. 76 percent. This SPA also updates charts and exhibits within the State plan that demonstrate the revised factors and limits applicable to the rate period beginning with SFY 2018.

This amendment proposes to allow the New York State Department of Health to move to actual acquisition cost (AAC) using the National Average Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC) as the primary basis for its lower of reimbursement methodology for prescription drugs submitted for payment to the medical assistance program, along with a professional dispensing fee (PDF) of $10.00.

This SPA adds coverage provisions for midlevel practitioner services to the State's Standard Alternative Benefit Plan (ABP).

This SPA adds coverage provisions for midlevel practitioner services to the State's CarePlus Alternative Benefit Plan (ABP).

Revises the Article 28 Clinic Ambulatory Patient Group (APG) reimbursement methodology to increase rates of payment due to a minimum wage increase effective January 1, 2017.